Albert, the son of Salinda (Rose) Breneman and Constantine “Tom” Breneman, is buried in the Ryan Township Cemetery, a small well-kept cemetery in Sumner County, Kansas, just one mile west of Milan, and about 16 miles west of Wellington on Highway 160.

Albert Miner Breneman

born – March 26, 1888
died – January 10, 1915

Albert, second from the left on the back in the picture below, had five brother’s and sisters, and one of his sisters, Carrie Esther Breneman, front left below, married Warner LaRue Jones.

6. Written everything you can? Then next fill out a family group sheet for your parents and their children (you and your siblings). Continue with your grandparents, great-grandparents, etc., as far back as you can go.

7. When you have gone as far as you can with what you know, you need to turn to other sources. Family members, such as parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, even your older siblings may remember something that you don’t.

8. After family, you will need to turn to paper records: wills, death certificates, obituaries, census records, newspapers, and much, much more.

Randy Seaver has written a Roots Magic Essentials review on his Genea-Musings here.

This will give you a place to begin to store your records. You do NOT have to have a program to do genealogy, but it does make it easier to file and manage all the information you may accumulate.

10. Review your Group Sheets. Someone told me once that doing genealogy was like working the world’s biggest puzzle. And that’s what genealogists do as they research, they add one puzzle piece at a time, checking to see where it fits. So now, you go over your Group sheets, and see what blanks you need to fill in, set your goals for future research, and start filling in the blanks!